Listing and deleting Git commits that are under no branch (dangling?)
I've got a Git repository with plenty of commits that are under no particular branch, I can git show them, but when I try to list branches that contain them, it reports back nothing.
I thought this is the dangling commits/tree issue (as a result of -D branch), so I pruned the repo, but I still see the same behavior after that:
$ git fetch origin
$ git fsck --unreachable
$ git fsck
No output, nothing dangling (right?). But the commit exists
$ git show 793db7f272ba4bbdd1e32f14410a52a412667042
commit 793db7f272ba4bbdd1e32f14410a52a412667042
Author: ...
and it is not reachable through any branch as
$ git branch --contains 793db7f272ba4bbdd1e32f14410a52a412667042
gives no output.
What exactly is the state of that commit? How can I list all commits in a similar state? How can I delete commits like those?
No output, nothing dangling (right?)
Note that commits referred to from your reflog are considered reachable.
What exactly is the state of that commit? How can I list all commits with similar state
Pass --no-reflogs to convince git fsck to show them to you.
How can I delete commits like those?
Once your reflog entries are expired, those objects will then also be cleaned up by git gc .
Expiry is regulated by the gc.pruneexpire , gc.reflogexpire , and gc.reflogexpireunreachable settings. Cf. git help config .
The defaults are all quite reasonable.
To remove all dangling commits and those reachable from the reflogs do this:
git reflog expire --expire-unreachable=now --all
git gc --prune=now
But be certain that this is what you want. I recommend you read the man pages but here is the gist:
git gc removes unreachable objects (commits, trees, blobs (files)). An object is unreachable if it isn't part of the history of some branch. Actually it is a bit more complicated:
git gc does some other things but they are not relevant here and not dangerous.
Unreachable objects that are younger than two weeks are not removed so we use --prune=now which means "remove unreachable objects that were created before now".
Objects can also be reached through the reflog. While branches record the history of some project, reflogs record the history of these branches. If you amend, reset etc. commits are removed from the branch history but git keeps them around in case you realize that you made a mistake. Reflogs are a convenient way to find out what destructive (and other) operations were performed on a branch (or HEAD), making it easier to undo a destructive operation.
So we also have to remove the reflogs to actually remove everything not reachable from a branch. We do so by expiring --all reflogs. Again git keeps a bit of the reflogs to protect users so we again have to tell it not to do so: --expire-unreachable=now .
Since I mainly use the reflog to recover from destructive operations I usually use --expire=now instead, which zaps the reflogs completely.
git branch --contains 793db7f272ba4bbdd1e32f14410a52a412667042
probably just needs to be
git branch -a --contains 793db7f272ba4bbdd1e32f14410a52a412667042
to also report on branches from remotes
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